Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

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